The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

Edward Mawji , Reiner Schlitzer (1) , Elena Masferrer Dodas (2) , Cyril Abadie (2) , Wafa Abouchami , Robert Anderson , Oliver Baars (3, 4) , Karel Bakker , Mark Baskaran , Nicholas R. Bates , Katrin Bluhm (5) , Andrew R. Bowie (6, 7, 8) , Johann Bown (6) , Marie Boye (6) , Edward Boyle , Pierre Branellec (9) , Ken Bruland (10) , Mark A. Brzezinski (11) , Eva Bucciarelli (6) , Ken Buesseler (12) , Edward Butler (13) , Pinghe Cai (14) , Damien Cardinal (15, 16) , Karen Casciotti (12) , Joaquin Chaves (17) , Hai Cheng (18, 19) , Fanny Chever (6) , Thomas M. Church (20, 21) , Albert S. Colman (22) , Tim M. Conway (23) , Peter Croot (3) , Gregory A. Cutter (24) , Hein J. W. de Baar (25) , Gregory F. de Souza (26) , Frank Dehairs (27, 28) , Feifei Deng (27, 4) , Huong Thi Dieu (27, 25) , Gabriel Dulaquais (6) , Yolanda Echegoyen-Sanz (29) , R. Lawrence Edwards (19) , Eberhard Fahrbach (1) , Jessica Fitzsimmons (30) , Martin Fleisher (28) , Martin Frank (31) , Jana Friedrich (27, 32) , François Fripiat (33) , Stephen J. G. Galer , Toshitaka Gamo , Ester Garcia Solsona , Loes J.A. Gerringa (25) , José Marcus Godoy (6) , Santiago Gonzalez , Emilie Grossteffan (6) , Mariko Hatta , Christopher Hayes , Maija Iris Heller , Gideon M. Henderson , Kuo-Fang Huang (34) , Catherine Jeandel (2, 35) , William Jenkins (12) , Seth John (36) , Timothy C. Kenna , Maarten Klunder (25) , Sven Kretschmer , Yuichiro Kumamoto , Patrick Laan (25) , Marie Labatut (2, 35) , Francois Lacan (2, 35) , Phoebe J. Lam , Delphine Lannuzel (8) , Frederic Le Moigne (37) , Oliver J. Lechtenfeld , Maeve C. Lohan , Yanbin Lu (19) , Pere Masqué (38, 39, 40) , Charles R. Mcclain , Christopher Measures , Rob Middag (41, 25) , James Moffett (12) , Alicia Navidad , Jun Nishioka , Abigail Noble , Hajime Obata (42) , Daniel C. Ohnemus , Stephanie Owens (12) , Frédéric Planchon (6) , Catherine Pradoux (2, 35) , Viena Puigcorbé (38) , Paul Quay , Amandine Radic (2, 35) , Mark Rehkämper , Tomas Remenyi , Micha J.A. Rijkenberg , Stephen Rintoul , Laura F. Robinson , Tobias Roeske , Mark Rosenberg , Michiel M. Rutgers van Der Loeff , Evgenia Ryabenko , Mak A. Saito , Saeed Roshan , Lesley Salt , Géraldine Sarthou (6) , Ursula Schauer , Peter Scott , Peter N. Sedwick (43) , Lijuan Sha , Alan M. Shiller , Daniel M. Sigman (4) , William M. Smethie , Geoffrey J. Smith , Yoshiki Sohrin (44) , Sabrina Speich (45) , Torben Stichel (46, 47) , Johnny Stutsman , James H. Swift , Alessandro Tagliabue (48) , Alexander Thomas , Urumu Tsunogai , Benjamin S. Twining (49) , Hendrik M. van Aken , Steven M. A. C. van Heuven , Jan van Ooijen , Evaline van Weerlee , Célia Venchiarutti (1, 31) , Antje H.L. Voelker (1, 7) , Bronwyn Wake (6) , Mark J. Warner (50) , E. Malcolm S. Woodward (1) , Jingfeng Wu (1) , Neil Wyatt , Hisayuki Yoshikawa (1) , Xin-Yuan Zheng , Zichen Xue (51) , Moritz Zieringer , Louise A. Zimmer

1 AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
2 LEGOS - Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales
3 IFM-GEOMAR - Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften
4 Department of Geosciences [Princeton]
5 Institute for Environmental Research
6 LEMAR - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR)
7 ACE-CRC - Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
8 IMAS - Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies [Hobart]
9 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
10 University of California
11 MSI - Marine Science Institute [Santa Barbara]
12 WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
13 AIMS - Australian Institute of Marine Science
14 MEL - State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science
15 BTP - Biogéochimie-Traceurs-Paléoclimat
16 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
17 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
18 IGEC - Institute of Global Environmental Change [China]
19 Department of Earth Sciences [Minneapolis]
20 Bonn University Hospital
21 CEOE - College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment [Newark]
22 UCL - University College of London [London]
23 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences [Columbia]
24 ODU - Old Dominion University [Norfolk]
25 NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
26 Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo
27 BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre
28 LDEO - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
29 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
30 Universidad de Dakota del Sur
31 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel]
32 BIOS - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
33 VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
34 Department of Mathematics and Science
35 GEOMAR LEGOS
36 Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex
37 NOC - National Oceanography Centre [Southampton]
38 ICTA - Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals
39 Oceans Institute and School of Physics
40 School of Natural Sciences and Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research
41 Department of Chemistry [Dunedin]
42 AORI - Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute [Kashiwa-shi]
43 BBSR - Bermuda Biological Station for Research
44 Kyoto University [Kyoto]
45 LPO - Laboratoire de physique des océans
46 SOEST
47 FM-GEOMAR
48 Department of Earth Ocean and Ecological Sciences [Liverpool]
49 Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
50 Department of Biology
51 RITE, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014 (IDP2014) is the first publicly available data product of the international GEOTRACES programme, and contains data measured and quality controlled before the end of 2013. It consists of two parts: (1) a compilation of digital data for more than 200 trace elements and isotopes (TEIs) as well as classical hydrographic parameters, and (2) the eGEOTRACES Electronic Atlas providing a strongly inter-linked on-line atlas including more than 300 section plots and 90 animated 3D scenes. The IDP2014 covers the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian oceans, exhibiting highest data density in the Atlantic. The TEI data in the IDP2014 are quality controlled by careful assessment of intercalibration results and multi-laboratory data comparisons at cross-over stations. The digital data are provided in several formats, including ASCII spreadsheet, Excel spreadsheet, netCDF, and Ocean Data View collection. In addition to the actual data values the IDP2014 also contains data quality flags and 1-σ data error values where available. Quality flags and error values are useful for data filtering. Metadata about data originators, analytical methods and original publications related to the data are linked to the data in an easily accessible way. The eGEOTRACES Electronic Atlas is the visual representation of the IDP2014 data providing section plots and a new kind of animated 3D scenes. The basin-wide 3D scenes allow for viewing of data from many cruises at the same time, thereby providing quick overviews of large-scale tracer distributions. In addition, the 3D scenes provide geographical and bathymetric context that is crucial for the interpretation and assessment of observed tracer plumes, as well as for making inferences about controlling processes.

Keywords: Electronic atlas; GEOTRACES; ACL; Trace elements; Isotopes

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Ocean, Atmosphere

Edward Mawji, Reiner Schlitzer, Elena Masferrer Dodas, Cyril Abadie, Wafa Abouchami, et al.. The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014. Marine Chemistry, 2015, 177, pp.1 - 8. ⟨10.1016/j.marchem.2015.04.005⟩. ⟨hal-01491331⟩